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They can’t think beyond today. Which is an understandable viewpoint from a small business that might get obliterated due to the timing, but for every day citizens they should be looking at the bigger picture. They should be thinking, “Whoa, it would be really cool if some all in one board game producing companies were here and I could actually work at one.”
 
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Yeah, I just got an email from another Kickstarter basically saying the same thing "We don't know what we are going to do". I'm like "Charge me $20 more for shipping or whatever, and then never make anything in China again. Problem solved.

Also, leave poor Poots alone, we're only 5 years behind and besides, I've received about 1/3 of my rewards already! :D

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In all seriousness, when I pledged this in 2016 I told me wife "He's saying this is going to be done in 4 years, but I'll bet money I'm still getting bits and pieces 20 years from now". It's fine with me, gives my kids more time to grow up so we can play it together!
 
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Yeah, I just got an email from another Kickstarter basically saying the same thing "We don't know what we are going to do". I'm like "Charge me $20 more for shipping or whatever, and then never make anything in China again. Problem solved.

Also, leave poor Poots alone, we're only 5 years behind and besides, I've received about 1/3 of my rewards already! :D

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In all seriousness, when I pledged this in 2016 I told me wife "He's saying this is going to be done in 4 years, but I'll bet money I'm still getting bits and pieces 20 years from now". It's fine with me, gives my kids more time to grow up so we can play it together!
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Yeah I knew he’d be behind, he’s just laughably terrible at time management, bloat, etc. he’s now saying it will be fully completed by 2027. I think it’s hilarious he actually thinks that with how much they have left to do. I wouldn’t be surprised if it breaks 2030.
 
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Looks like it could be sick but with the recent track record of companies delaying things, continued tariff impacts, and companies straight up imploding (looking you CMON) I don't know about doing anything big anymore. I think the golden age of Kickstarter boardgames is over and might have been for a while now.
 
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Into the Unknown appears to be doing just fine. They seem to have a solid stance on how to handle supply interruptions and tariff impacts. I’ve got all-ins for all three of their in-production games and I expect to receive them all.
 
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Warr said:
Looks like it could be sick but with the recent track record of companies delaying things, continued tariff impacts, and companies straight up imploding (looking you CMON) I don't know about doing anything big anymore. I think the golden age of Kickstarter boardgames is over and might have been for a while now.
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If tarrifs would have stuck at the huge % it was at for a few weeks then yeah, that would have been bad. CMON blew up in 2024, pre tariff. It seems to me like companies are using tarrifs as a crutch for shitty project/finance management.

Also, delays are not recent, that’s been a staple of Kickstarters for a decade+. It’s rare for companies to deliver on time.
 
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For a masterclass on how to fuck everything up, go do a deep dive on Sandy Peterson Games. At least I got my Cthulhu wars shit, but there is zero way Hyperspace ever happens and my friend has three other KSes that are years behind. Dude fucked EVERYTHING up.

On Kickstarters in general, I have had good luck with anything not Sandy Peterson. But as of now I have some KSes I got into that are probably lost causes (Latest Root wave, Revised Star Trek Ascendancy stuff, Food Chain Magnate reissue) but Earthbound Rangers seems to be going on schedule at least.
 
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For a masterclass on how to fuck everything up, go do a deep dive on Sandy Peterson Games. At least I got my Cthulhu wars shit, but there is zero way Hyperspace ever happens and my friend has three other KSes that are years behind. Dude fucked EVERYTHING up.

On Kickstarters in general, I have had good luck with anything not Sandy Peterson. But as of now I have some KSes I got into that are probably lost causes (Latest Root wave, Revised Star Trek Ascendancy stuff, Food Chain Magnate reissue) but Earthbound Rangers seems to be going on schedule at least.
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Yeah I’ve read about that Sandy Peterson situation. Even the partner they made who was confident they could deliver on their promises bowed out pretty quickly. I doubt they deliver anything in the future, they just burned all the money.
 
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I'll have to look into that. I was suuuuuper happy with my Cthulhu wars stuff from them (mostly because the minis are sick, I've used them for tons in tabletop games), but never paid attention to anything past that.

I'm mostly been very happy with Kickstarters but yeah, I've been burned on 2 projects out of the 50 or so I've kickstarted. One was a virtual tabletop that looked like it was going to do exactly what I wanted that released a beta and then the creator basically just went "Turns out this is really hard, and I have a full time job and I just don't feel motivated to continue work, sorry". The other one was a co-op pc game my wife was interested in. I kickstarted it and they just never emailed me keys. They released the game (Re:Legend) on Steam, so I wrote the company several times but never received a reply, wah wah.
 
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We could probably made a thread just on Kickstarter stories. I've never been burned but I did have one that fulfilled really late and unexpectedly.

Basically it was a guy that made custom inserts for games. After his first couple of inserts got sent out he went dark. I heard nothing for a year and a half, if I sent emails he'd respond with the usual bullshit. Work got busy, surgery etc. I wrote it off until, unexpectedly, he sent me mine. Then I totally just forgot about it since I was done. Like 3 years later he updated to announce he was sending they inserts out for another game. He also mentioned he hadn't forgotten the insert for the final one. I looked it up, it was for 3 people. Kickstarter can be weird.
 
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So I just pledged for all 3 hardcover books. I love me some fun silly tongue in cheek gaming now and then.

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Monsters of Murka Trilogy: Ratified & Radified

Enter a World where Capitalism is King. Then, punch it in the face. Monsters of Murka is a Platinum-Best-Selling trilogy of campaign settings for 5e D&D. We've added hundreds of new spells, items, and monsters, all with that over-the-top Murka flavor!
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Thematic Note
At Roxley, we acknowledge the exploitation of workers, children, and marginalized groups including women, Indigenous peoples, and the Black community, that fueled industrial growth during Pittsburgh's Gilded Age. While Brass: Pittsburgh focuses on the economic and industrial aspects of this era, we recognize the human cost behind it. We do not romanticize unbridled capitalism nor glorify the robber barons of the time, but rather aim to explore this complex chapter of history through its industries and innovations.
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I was excited to see this game until this paragraph. Please tell me this is just paeon to Progressive infestation and this won't be a substantial part of the actual game.
 
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I was excited to see this game until this paragraph. Please tell me this is just paeon to Progressive infestation and this won't be a substantial part of the actual game.
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It’s virtue signaling to the gaming community which is infested with leftist ideology. I’m guessing most gaming companies are infested with it too, I see it in every gaming group I join out in the wild. Some clown probably wrote something about the evils of capitalism and black people on BGG or something and they felt the need to put that stupid note out. It’s like when people start speeches with “we acknowledge this is tribal land” when the speech has nothing to do with anything people or race related.

I doubt it will impact the game at all, it’s just a bunch of mechanics interacting. Still pretty pathetic to see but it goes with the board game community at large now.
 
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